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Plowshares vs. Depleted Uranium Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article: Ryan Beiler Four Plowshares activists led by Philip Berrigan entered an Air National Guard base in Essex, Maryland, in late December to di ...
Dear Judge Wynn Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Various Authors What do we do when conscience and the law are at odds? ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1995, 39 mini ...
The Cry of the Poor Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Joe Roos THE OLD TESTAMENT prophets claimed, and the New Testament witnesses affirmed, that a society will be judged (by God) most fundame ...
The Pesky Moral Imperative Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Ellen Watkins Why would I, a peaceful, usually law-abiding grandmother of four (not even a parking ticket) break the habit of a lifetime a ...
A Tradition of Resistance Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Gordon Cosby The great deliverer of the Hebrew people was Moses. The great deliverer of the Hebrew people was ...
For the Children Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Paul Weiss Jesus made it clear that we must love our brothers and sisters as he loved us. Jesus made it clear ...
Faith and Crab Pots Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Dee Dee Risher The political leaders in place at this time are constructing social policy and vision that is fundamentally destructive of ...
Concern for the Church Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Tony Campolo The Bible gives very clear instructions that Christians should be subject to government authorities (Romans 13:1-4). ...
Here I am! Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Heather Wengerd As a social worker at Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Clinic, I have had many experiences with those who are sufferi ...
Idols and Fire Trucks Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Richard K. Taylor It is wrong to make an idol out of the law. It is wrong to make an idol out of the law. The Te ...
Meditations on Breaking the Law Originally Posted: 04/10/2011 - 4:29pm | Type: Magazine Article: Rose Marie Berger If we could split ourselves like a crack in the cement (children's names written when wet a heart a f ...
A Conversation With My Daughter Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Killian Noe Perhaps I can best explain why I knowingly chose to break the law by recalling a conversation I had with my 7-year-old daughte ...
A Passion for Solutions Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Maia Twedt The story of poverty must be told again and again until we all recognize a responsibility to search for solutions and develop a ...
The Risk of Democracy Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: William O'Brien The democratic tradition at its best has always had those who act on conscience in such ways that knowingly defy the ...
The Morality of the System Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Bob Holum The rule of law in a free society is an expression of the social contract between the governed and government and between the pe ...
As if my heart were breaking Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Carol Wilkerson The law is our mutually created instrument to protect impartially the common good and individual rights from abuses by ind ...
For the Salvation of My Soul Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article: Jim Dickerson In many ways I feel like a hypocrite in regards to my actions at the Capitol. In many ways I fee ...